The Police Commissioner of Apeldoorn requested that Rose Helene Wijler, living at 13 Frisolaan in Apeldoorn, be located, detained and brought to trial. She was suspected of having changed her place of residence without the required authorization. This description referred to Jews who had gone into …
It is still an extremely sensitive topic: suicide during the Second World War. Historians have not known what to do with it for a long time. What is the place of suicide bombers in war history?
Remarkably little has been written on this subject and there seems to be no list of names or memorial book…
In the summer of 1942 the Wijler family went into hiding. Jacob Wijler and Elisabeth Kolthoff hid in Epe, their daughters in Apeldoorn. In February 1943 both parents heard that their daughters were betrayed and deported. Jacob Wijler and Elisabeth Kolthoff committed suicide shortly afterwards. In A…
Volgens de personeelslijst van het Apeldoorsche Bosch (1942, waarschijnlijk uitgewerkt in september 1942) was Rose Helene Wijler assistente op de Joodse school op het Apeldoornsche Bosch.
Bron: personeelslijst Apeldoornsche Bosch (1942), in bezit van CODA Archief Apeldoorn.
De familie Wijler bestond uit Jacob Samuel Wijler (1884), zijn vrouw Elisabeth Rose Wijler-Kolthoff (1887) en twee dochters Martha Rose (1919) en Rose Helene (1922). Alleen Rose Helene is in Apeldoorn geboren. Sinds 1920 woonde het gezin in Apeldoorn. Jacob was in dat jaar benoemd als docent Frans a…